Friedrich Nietzsche

Friedrich NietzscheFriedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844-1900) was a German philosopher, prose poet, cultural critic, philologist, and composer whose work has exerted a profound influence on contemporary philosophy.

Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes

But I need solitude–which is to say, recovery, return to myself, the breath of a free, light, playful air.

—Friedrich Nietzsche

Art is the proper task of life.

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Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings — always darker, emptier and simpler.

—Friedrich Nietzsche

The demand to be loved is the greatest of all arrogant presumptions.

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I am a forest, and a night of dark trees: but he who is not afraid of my darkness, will find banks full of roses under my cypresses.

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To recognize untruth as a condition of life–that certainly means resisting accustomed value feelings in a dangerous way; and a philosophy that risks this would by that token alone place itself beyond good and evil.

—Friedrich Nietzsche

To recognize untruth as a condition of life–that certainly means resisting accustomed value feelings in a dangerous way; and a philosophy that risks this would by that token alone place itself beyond good and evil.

—Friedrich Nietzsche

A matter that becomes clear ceases to concern us.

—Friedrich Nietzsche

The thought of suicide is a great consolation: by means of it one gets through many a dark night.

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Digressions, objections, delight in mockery, carefree mistrust are signs of health; everything unconditional belongs in pathology.

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It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them!

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All truly great thoughts are conceived by walking.

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What is good?

All that heightens the feeling of power, the will to power, power itself.

What is bad?

All that is born of weakness.

What is happiness?

The feeling that power is growing, that resistance is overcome.

—Friedrich Nietzsche

What is good?

All that heightens the feeling of power, the will to power, power itself.

What is bad?

All that is born of weakness.

What is happiness?

The feeling that power is growing, that resistance is overcome.

—Friedrich Nietzsche

Physiologists should think before putting down the instinct of self-preservation as the cardinal instinct of an organic being.

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One has to take a somewhat bold and dangerous line with this existence: especially as, whatever happens, we are bound to lose it.

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One must be a sea, to receive a polluted stream without becoming impure.

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Those who hear not the music think the dancers mad.

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There are no facts, only interpretations.

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Whatever is done for love always occurs beyond good and evil.

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It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.

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I know of no better life purpose than to perish in attempting the great and the impossible.

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I obviously do everything to be “hard to understand” myself.

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No one can construct for you the bridge upon which precisely you must cross the stream of life, no one but you yourself alone.

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Sometimes people don’t want to hear the truth because they don’t want their illusions destroyed.

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Blessed are the forgetful, for they get the better even of their blunders.

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If a man has character, he has also his typical experience, which always recurs.

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A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.

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To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.

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Underneath this reality in which we live and have our being, another and altogether different reality lies concealed.

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